C182 LOST ILS EQUIP AND EXECUTED RADAR SURVEILLANCE APCH TO LIT.

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THE IFR FLT PLAN ORIGINATED FROM BRESSEMER; AL (EKY) WITH THE DEST LITTLE ROCK; AR (LIT). PRIOR TO BEING HANDED OFF FROM ZME TO LIT APCH; ATIS WAS RPTING ILS LNDGS ON RWY 22R WITH 2 1/2 MI VISIBILITY AND CEILING OVCST AT 300 FT. UPON CONTACTING LIT APCH; I WAS TOLD TO EXPECT ILS RWY 22R AND GIVEN SUBSEQUENT VECTORS FOR THAT APCH WHICH INCLUDED A DOWNWIND TO RWY 22R AT 3000 FT. AT THIS ALT THE AIRPLANE WAS SKIMMING THE TOPS OF CLOUDS. I WAS THEN GIVEN A HDG OF 260 DEGS AND TOLD TO MAINTAIN 2000 FT UNTIL ESTABLISHED FOR THE ILS APCH AND CLRED FOR THE ILS RWY 22R AND TO SWITCH TO TWR. UPON TURNING TO THIS VECTOR AND BEGINNING A DSCNT OUT OF 3000 FT; THE LOC NEEDLE CAME ALIVE AND ON AN APPROX HDG OF 220 DEGS; I WAS ESTABLISHED ON THE LOC AND CONTINUING THE DSCNT TO 2000 FT. ABOUT 2100 FT; THE LOC NEEDLE PEGGED TO THE L; I LEVELED THE PLANE AND TOLD THE TWR I WOULD NEED A MISSED APCH SINCE I HAD LOST THE LOC NEEDLE. THE TWR RESPONDED; 'SIR; I SHOW YOU ON THE LOC.' TO WHICH I RESPONDED THAT I WAS SHOWING NO LOC INDICATION. THE TWR THEN PROVIDED VECTORS AND ALT AND SWITCHED ME TO THE APCH CTLR. THE APCH CTLR THEN ASKED IF I HAD PREVIOUSLY DONE A RADAR SURVEILLANCE APCH TO WHICH I RESPONDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. HE THEN AID THAT HE WOULD PROVIDE TURNS AND STOPS WHICH HE PROCEED TO PERFORM. I WAS THEN SWITCHED OVER TO ANOTHER APCH FREQ AND ANOTHER CTLR TOOK OVER AND PROVIDED EXCELLENT TURNS AND INSTRUCTIONS AND DECREASED THE ASSIGNED ALT IN A STEPWISE FASHION UNTIL THE PLANE WAS LEVEL AT 700 FT AND I WAS INSTRUCTED TO RPT THE RWY LIGHTS IN SIGHT. WHEN THE THRESHOLD LIGHTS WERE VISIBLE; I RPTED THEM IN SIGHT AND LANDED THE PLANE AND RPTED THE SUCCESSFUL LNDG AND THANKED THE CTLR FOR THE EXCELLENT GUIDANCE. 3 DAYS ALTER; I RECEIVED A MESSAGE ON MY HOME TELEPHONE ANSWERING MACHINE WITH THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE: 'YES; THIS IS MR X. I AM WITH THE FAA AND I WORK AT THE LIT CTL TWR AND JUST FOLLOWING UP ON AN INCIDENT; I BELIEVE THE ACFT NUMBER XXXX WAS INVOLVED AND I AM LOOKING FOR THE OWNER AND IF THEY WERE INVOLVED IN IT. BASICALLY IF YOU WOULD CALL BACK. JUST TRYING TO GET A LITTLE INFO AND FOLLOW-UP INFO.' I RETURNED THE CALL. HE STATED THAT HE NEEDED TO KNOW WHERE THE FLT ORIGINATED; HOW MANY SOULS WERE ON BOARD AND IF I WAS PLTING THE ACFT. TO WHICH I ANSWERED 'BESSEMER; ALABAMA (EKY); 2 SOULS ON BOARD AND I AM PLTING THE ACFT.' HE STATED THAT HE WAS SIMPLY COMPLETING A CTLR RADAR ASSIST FORM AND THAT I MAY OR MAY NOT HEAR FROM THE LCL FSDO. SINCE THE OCCURRENCE OF THIS EVENT; THE AIRPLANE HAS COMPLETED ITS ANNUAL INSPECTION AND THE FUNCTION OF THE LOC AND GS HAS BEEN VERIFIED WITH APPROPRIATE ACFT LOGBOOK ENTRIES MADE. NO ANOMALIES WERE FOUND. I BELIEVE THAT THE CAUSE MAY HAVE BEEN RELATED TO STATIC BUILD-UP ON THE AIRPLANE FROM SKIMMING ALONG ON TOP OF THE CLOUDS AND THEN HAVING TO DSND ALMOST 1000 FT RAPIDLY TO BE AT THE PROPER HT FOR BEING ESTABLISHED ON THE LOC.